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Jackie Chan: The reluctant Hollywood hero

The people behind Forbidden Kingdom think it has everything going for it -- beginning with the fact that martial arts icons Jackie Chan and Jet Li are sharing the screen for the first time.

The fantasy adventure opening Friday transports audiences on a time journey into an exotic parallel world of Chinese legend and myth -- a world in which honour and heroism reign supreme and kung fu is celebrated as a way of life.

Producer Casey Silver -- a Hollywood veteran whose gut instincts have been proven right over and over again with movies like Schindler’s List, Erin Brockovich, Shakespeare in Love and The Mummy -- is convinced that Forbidden Kingdom will strike international gold.